As the municipal elections in West Windsor draw nearer, the West Windsor Retirees’ Group is hosting a debate for the mayoral and council candidates on Monday, April 27, at the municipal building.##M:[more]##
Mayoral candidates — incumbent Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh, Council President Charles Morgan, and resident Pete Weale — will get their turn from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Then, from 11 a.m. to noon, council candidates will get their turn.
Anupam Gupta and Nitin Shah, both of whom are running with Morgan on the Best 4 West Windsor slate, are running for the two open council seats in the May 12 election. Councilwoman Linda Geevers and resident Kamal Khanna, who will be seeking to fill the second seat on council, joined Hsueh to make up the West Windsor First slate.
The debates will be moderated by the retirees’ group leader Ronald Slinn. They will be broadcast live over Channel 27 and video-taped for re-broadcast until the election.
The audience will be able to submit written questions, which will be reviewed by an independent panel and presented by the moderator to the candidates in randomized order. Questions should be generic in nature, not directed to an individual candidate, nor involving personal attacks. Each candidate will have two minutes to answer each question. On request, one 30-second rebuttal will be allowed.
Further, the rules laid out by the retirees’ group state that a bell will be rung once when the allotted time for a statement, answer, or rebuttal has been reached and then again twice 15 seconds later, when the candidate is expected to conclude speaking immediately.
Each candidate will be invited to make a two-minute closing statement, in reverse order to their opening statements.
